1 1 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN Water Gap region. Through Wednesday, April 25. (Ingber, 3 E. 78th St.) CARMEN CICERo-Painted-paper collages, and paintings Through Saturday, April 28. (Gu- rewitsch, 55 E 74th St. Opens at 1.) RON DAVis-Big oil paintings in which a sin- gle solid, geometric form is seen resting on a tilted checkerboard floor that recedes clear out of the picture plane. Through Thursday, April 26. (Blum-Helman, 13 E 75th St.) NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE--A new crop of her gaudily painted sculptural fantasies, which she now casts in polyester Many of the pieces are maquettes for enormous works on the scale of her celebrated "N anas," and include play- ground monsters whose protruding tongues are slides for children. Through May 23. (Gimpel, 1040 Madison Ave., at 79th St.) RENÉ GENis-Paintings of the countryside and seashore in France, and still-lifes Through Saturday, April 28. (Findlay, 984 Madison Ave., at 77th St.) JOHN A. GIORDANo-Large abstract works on paper, and geometric sculptures Through Saturday, April 28. (Cucalón, 145 E. 72nd St. Opens at noon) ARSHILE GORKY (I904-48)-Major works, done between 1929 and the time of his death. They range from the dark, heavy abstracts to the light, airy ones, and include a version of what many consider his masterpiece, the haunting representational portrait of himself with his mother. Through Saturday, April 28 (Four- cade, 36 E. 75th St ) ANTHONY GREEN-This artist uses distorted per- spective the way a photographer might use a wide-angle lens-to sho\\ an entire room. In this case, the rooms are settings for paintings of his mother and other members of his fam- ily. Through May 5. (Staempfli, 47 E. 77th St ) GERTRUDE GLASS GREENE (1904-56) AND BAL- COMB GREENE-Early, colorful geometric works by two artists, husband and wife, who were founding members of the American Ab- stract Artists, in 1936. His are sharp-edge paintings, hers are constructions in low re- hef, and there is a strong family resem- blance. Through Saturday, April 21. (ACA, 21 E. 67th St.) NIGEL HALL-Wall sculptures composed of painted-aluminum rods Through May 2. (Elkon, 1063 Madison Ave., at 80th St.) HARMONY HAMMoND-.Wall and floor pieces: wood bound with painted fabric Through Thursday, April 26 (Lerner-Heller, 956 Madison .i\ve., at 75th St.) OLIVIA KAHN / GRACE POLOGE-Oils, serigraphs, and ceramics./ Sculptures and drawings. Through Saturday, April 28 (Caravan House, 132 E 65th St Opens at I I :30.) PAUL KLEE (I879-I940)-Fifty-four drawings, watercolors, and oils, which are about as dis- parate as can be, yet all bear the unmis- takable stamp of the master who made them. The occasion is the centennial of-Klee's birth. Through May 19 (Saidenberg, 1018 Madison Ave., at 79th St Opens at I on Saturdays.) RODGE MACK-Abstract sculptures in which carved stones of varying colors are JOIned by metal spikes Through Saturday, April 28 (Krasner, 1043 Madison Ave., at 80th St.) TODD McKIE-StrikIng new watercolors, done with a surrealist flavor, sometimes tongue-in- cheek. Through Saturday, April 21. (Acqua- vella, 18 E 79th St.) GEORGE L. K. MORRIS (1905-75) I GEORGE BEL- LOWS (I882-I925)-Paintings and sculptures by a pioneer American abstractionist./ Litho- graphs Through Saturday, April 28. (HirschI & Adler, 21 E. 70th St.) ELLIOT OFFNER-Sculptures in bronze and wood. Through Friday, April 20 (Forum, 1018 Madison Ave., at 79th St.) MAURICE PRENDERGAST (I859-I924)-A loan show of ninety-two monotypes by this artist, who \V as one of the first in this country to take up the craft and was certainly among the most prolific in its use. Through Saturday, April 28. (Davis & Long, 746 Madison Ave., at 65th St.) ANTONIO SEGUI-A series of paintings in which this satirical Argentine artist plays pranks with Rembrandt's famous anatomy lesson. Through Saturday, April 28. (Lefebre, 47 E. 77th St.) KAREN SHAw-Sentences based on a code de- vised by the artist collaged and hand-colored S-M-T-W-T-F-S I I 1 18 19 1 20 1 21 22 2j 24 25 26 27 28 on bank statements, ledgers, and receipts. Through May 5. (Urdang, 23 E. 74th St.) JOSEPH STELLA (1877-1946)- Works on paper, some of them never shown before, including portrait heads, landscapes, single flowers and plants, and imaginary architecture. Through Saturday, April 21. (Schoelkopf, 825 Madi- son Ave., at 69th St.) WAYNE THIEBAUD / DAVID BEcK-Paintings and drawings of San Francisco / Box construc- tions, including a six-foot rhinoceros covered with a leather hide and fitted with doors that open to reveal tableaux of rhinoceros-related activities Through May 2 (Stone. 48 E. 86th St.) ABRAHAM WALKOWITZ (I878-I965)-Early works on paper Through Saturday, April 2I. (Deutsch, 43 E. 80th St.) THREE CONTEMPORARY RUSSIANs-Strangely bloated surrealist figures by Oleg Tselkov; bronzes of mythological creatures by Ernst N eizvestny; and grid compositions involving organic shapes by Mihail Chemiakin Through Friday, April 20. (Nakhamkin, a new gallery at 1070 Madison Ave, at 8Ist St.) AFRICAN SCULPTURE-Wood carvings (standing figures, masks, fetishes, ancestors) from Nigeria, Mali, Madagascar, Zaire, and the Ivory Coast, the personal collection of Arne Ekstrom Through Saturday, April 21 (Cor- dier & Ekstrom, 980 Madison Ave., at 76th St.) GROUP SHows-At the REED. 120 E 78th St.: A new-talent show includes wooden cutouts, painted with oils, of such items as a pair of glasses, a knife, a coat hanger, a cravat, a pis- tol, a bra, each hung separately on the wall in a composition called Constellation 1 (by Wini- fred Gallagher); wall pieces that look like cookie dough rolled out and folded back on itself (by Sharon Gilbert); and portraits of chairs in oil on canvas (by Mary Wheeler). Through Saturday, April 21. (Opens at 1.) . . . WILDENSTEIN. 19 E. 64th St.. A benefit loan show of paintings (forty-five) and drawings (twenty-two) by French artists. The works, by La Tour, Boucher, Renoir, and others, are in the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Through Friday April 27. (Open Mondays; closed Saturdays.) GALLERIES-57TH STREET AREA ROBERT BARNEs-Nightmarish oils full of violent action, some of them continuing the Byron- Shelley narrative paintings that this artist showed two years ago and others taking up new themes involving a peacock as one of the characters. Also works on paper Through May 2. (Frumkin, 50 W. 57th St. Opens at noon on Saturdays.) NELL BLAINE-A boundless energy seems at work in these watercolors and oils of flowers, the Austrian alps, scenes of Gloucester, country- house interiors. Through May 2. (Fischbach, 29 W. 57th St.) BERT CARPENTER-Greatly enlarged flower still- lifes. Through Thursday, April 26. (Sachs, 29 W. 57th St.) ROBERT COLEscon-A ne\v set of rowdy paintings by this West Coast satirist includes takeoffs on famous works; for instance, a group of low-lifes join in with Matisse's dancers, and de Kooning's best-known woman has acquired - Iq D I - )) no G: lI ' I Q ."n un :: ì ".. : n f1l1ll 1 ü -- of:' ...! - .J - -- _.;., "," . M!'''#' ' aA''''' '\ " , I \ \ "!i r 1 . t 10 , DD , or . u11 . . ' , nnOOnOO .......... the head of Aunt Jemima. Through Saturday, April 28. (Hamilton, 20 W. 57th St ) PIERO DORAZIo-Abstract paintings characterized by broken bands of color. Through May 5 (Emmerich, 41 E. 57th St.) JEAN DUBUFFET-New additions to his "Théâtres de Memoire" series, these being oils on can- vas and black-and-white drawings. Through Saturday, April 21 (Pace, 32 E. 57th St.) . . . CJJ Another facet of this artist's work-a twenty-two-foot-high painted-steel sculp- ture-can be seen at the entrance to Central Park at Fifth Ave. and 60th St PATRICIA TOBACCO FORRESTER / BERTY SKUBER-Im- mense watercolors of flowers and trees paint- ed in the arboretum of San Francisco's Gold- en Gate Park./ This artist keeps a sort of dou- ble-entry diary, one written and decorated by herself, the other by her alter ego. Both are done on a very small scale, and so are the collages on exhibition which involve color snapshots and pen-and-ink musings and other ornamentation. The diary can be found in a display case, and the collages are OP the wall. Through Saturday, April 28. (Korn- blee, 20 W. 57th St.) EDWARD GIOBBI-N ew abstract oils. Through May 5 (Gruenebaum, 38 E. 57th St.) NANCY GOLDRING-This artist superimposes a photograph of a window seen from the out- side over a drawing of the same window, and then photographs the ensemble. Through May 5 ( Gladstone-Villani, 38 E. 57th St ) RICHARD HAMWI-Abstract patterns made up of incredibly thin colored-pencil lines. Through Saturday, A.pril 21. (Parsons-Dreyfuss 24 W. 57th St.) RICHARD HUNT-Abstract metal sculptures. Through May 18. (Dorsky, 4 W. 57th St. Open Mondays; closed Saturdays.) YVONNE JACQUETTE-This artist, who was among the first to do landscapes from an airplane, now has a series of "Night Paintings" done from a great height-the East River, Belfast harbor, and the Flatiron Building intersection among them The technique is a kind of im- pressionism but the result, at a little distance, is almost photographically real. Through l\1ay 5 (Alexander, 20 W 57th St.) PATRICIA JOHANSoN-Blueprint-like drawings of houses whose floor plans take the form of orchids, insects, and animals, the idea being that a structure built on natural lines, as opposed to straight, man-made lines, would become part of the surrounding landscape. Through May 5 (Esman, 29 W. 57th St ) R. B. KITAJ-This Ohio-born artist is one of the members of the School of London, which in- cludes Hockney, Bacon, and Freud. Fifty of his pastels and drawings are on view here, expertly brought off but some of them rather gamy Through Saturday, April 28. (Marl- borough, 40 W. 57th St.) RICHARD LYTLE-Primroses, monkshood, cin- eraria, impatiens, cardinal flowers, foxgloves, and so on, rendered in watercolors by an asso- ciate professor in the Yale School of Art. Through Thursday, Apri] 26. (Pearl, 29 W 57th St.) ED MosEs-Panels of intense solid colors, includ- ing several that are done in automobile enam- el. They are all recent works Through Satur- day, April 21. (Janis, 6 W. 57th St.) JUDITH MURRAy-Hard-edge geometrical shapes painted with a good deal of dash in red, blac , white, and ochre. Through Saturday, Apnl 21. (Pam Adler, 50 W. 57th St.) DAVID REED-Recent paintings Through May 5 (Protetch, 37 W. 57th St ) RlsA-Steel sculptures that are lacquered white and pleated in a way that suggests folding screens. Through May 5. (Parsons, 24 W 57th St ) MICHELLE STUART-Sites of archeological interest are represented here by large sheets of hand- made paper into which earth and rocks from the site in question are ground. The sheets all have a rather uniformly dirty look, so it is dif- ficult to distinguish the páper representing, say J ocotan, Guatemala, from the one repre- senting Mound City, Ohio. Through Satur- day, April 28 (Droll-Kolbert, 724 Fifth A.ve., at 57th St.) ROBERT WILSON-Paintings, drawings, and ob- j ect made in connection with a theatre piece, "Death Destruction, and Detroit," that Wil- son produced in Berlin this season. One item is an electric-light bulb, perfectly ordinary